The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-26
BASE BALL.
Noies and GosSip About Players-Game 10
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It Is altogether probable that no bas
ball games will DO played this week unit
Friday and Saturday, when it Is expecte,
tho Bells, Of Pittsbureh, will return an,
play the Green stockinga on those days
The shamrocks, Of Cincinnati, as wa
stated last week, wanted three days thi
week, but satisfactory arrangements coult
not be made with them. ~
30 far Wheeling and Z,uesyille are tn,
only clubs OF the Ohio League that have
won games. With a little more practice
the home team promises to give good &C,
count Of themselves. The championship
games will not begin until next week, and
BY that time the boys will be rid Of the
soreness experienced In the frat games
played.
FLY BALLS.
snow, you slide!' That must be the
war cry for run getting this season.
Cincinnati leads the American Associa.
ton clubs for the championship race.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch says Sam Bark.
ley Is writing pocket history and direc.
tory OF Wheeling. This may mean some
thing and 1t may not.
The Oswegos, Of New York, who were
10 have played in Pittsburgh yesterday.
failed to show up. They were called home
on account OF continuous deieats.
AS yet tho Wheeling club has not heard
Of any effort being mRde to present them
with handsome flag. The flagstaff on
the grand stand will be ready for The dag.
Tho Hamilton. Canada, club made the
Pittsburgh management pay for passes to
newspaper reporters, although they took
away $3.50 as their share OF their gate re.
ceipts.
The Association games 10 DO played to.
day are Cincinnati vs. st, Louis; Metro
polltans vs.. Atheletics; Louisvilles va.
Clevelands. Those who can call tho turn
will play the combination boards accord
ingly.
Pittsburgh is making great preparations
tor the opening game OF the Lessle cham
pionship series. There will be parade
OF the clubs headed by brass band, and
speeches will be made on the grounds by
two prominent citizens Of the city.
The revision Of the Ohio League
schednle has not yet been completed, but
1t is intimated that some radical changes
will be made, rs the present order Of
things makes several long Jumps by rail
necessary. President Clugstou, of Mans.
field, has, the new achedule in hand but
has not yet given it out.
The Duluths defeated tho Columbus
team by score Of II 10 s. The STATE
Journal devotes nearly column to dis.
cnrelve account Of the game, mainly en-.
deavoring 10 show that tho Duluths were
a crowd Of "kickere'. It must be said
for the Daluths that they behaved in a
very gentlemanly manner while here, and
that the Green Stockings took their medi.
cine with good grace.
President Young, OF the National
League, Gays that when base run
ner steals base, and whore the game is
secured through misplay other than a
battery error, the runner earns the base
by making the daring attempt. He also
says: This query has been propounded to
me: Suppose a player reaches frst on u
hit, steala second on q tumble OF the base
man, and is batted home, is tho run
earned?" I answer no. The reason is
obvious, but the point should be carefully
borne in mind in filing out tho earned
run blanks in your score sheets. Earned
runa, it should be remembered, are not
credited to individuals, nor do they have
any particular bearing upon the status OF
club in making up the averages which
constitute the monthly and annual rec.
ords. They are important factors, how
ever, in gauging the effectiveness Of
pitcher, and it is in this light alone that
they should be regarded"